NES 2799 - [Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and Quran in Comparative Perspective]

(crosslisted)
(also JWST 2799, RELST 2799)(GHB) (LA-AS)

Fall. 3 credits.

Next offered 2014-2015.

R. Brann.

This course examines (in translation) the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and Quran as foundational documents of the Jewish, Christian and Islamic religious traditions respectively and as texts by which their corresponding religious communities came to constitute and define themselves and their historical memory. The approach in this course will be comparative, analyzing primarily literary aspects of parallel narrative traditions on Creation, the Noah story, Abraham/Ibrahim and his sons, the Joseph/Yusuf cycle, the Solomon-Sheba material and the figure of Jesus in the synoptic Gospels and in the Quran. The class will also discuss the concepts of revelation and prophethood and notions of history, eschatology and apocalypse set forth the three Scriptures.